FI:VB000 Elements of Style - Course Information
VB000 Elements of Style
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Hana Žižková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Thu 26. 9. to Thu 12. 12. Thu 12:00–13:50 A217
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
VB000/02: Wed 25. 9. to Wed 18. 12. each odd Wednesday 12:00–13:50 B411, Z. Nevěřilová
VB000/03: Tue 1. 10. to Tue 10. 12. each even Tuesday 16:00–17:50 C525, P. Šmerk
VB000/04: Tue 24. 9. to Tue 17. 12. each odd Tuesday 16:00–17:50 C525, P. Šmerk
VB000/05: Thu 3. 10. to Thu 12. 12. each even Thursday 14:00–15:50 A218, H. Žižková - Prerequisites
- NOW( SBAPR Bachelor Thesis ) || ( PrF:BI1000Z Bachelor Thesis )
Students are supposed to have already their bachelor's thesis topics selected. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 110 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 66/110, only registered: 1/110, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 1/110 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 40 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able:
to acquire skills for writing technical texts (introduction to Bachelor thesis and the state-of-the-art chapter);
to master the principles of positive communication, knowledge of communication barriers and the ways of their overcoming;
to apply rules for writing academic texts in theory and practice;
to recognize and use features of academic writing: structure, composition, terminology, definitions, formal language, composition, consistency;
to recognize and correct spelling and grammatical errors in the technical texts;
to prepare an oral presentation about the given topic. - Learning outcomes
- The students will:
determine the academic style main characteristics (formal, precise, structured, using hedging);
plan the written part of their bachelor thesis;
select appropriate academic resources for their domain;
summarise current state-of-the-art for their domain;
formulate the aim, methods, and results of their bachelor thesis;
cite appropriately academic resources;
write abstract - Syllabus
- Communication maxims, basic principles of the positive communication.
- Communication barriers and the ways of their overcomning.
- Communication skills, practical writing
- Language and communication, various registers and styles.
- Language correctness, spelling, orthography, language support software.
- Colloquial and Common Czech, dialects, slangs.
- Writing technical and research documents, their composition, vertical and horizontal structuring, lexical features, terms, terminology.
- Oral and written presentations: talks, lectures, articles, posters etc.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- KRATOCHVÍL, Jiří, Petr SEJK, Věra ELIÁŠOVÁ and Marek STEHLÍK. Metodika tvorby bibliografických citací. 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. Elportál. ISSN 1802-128X. PURL url info
- ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
- JANOVEC, Ladislav, Lucie BUŠOVÁ, Adéla ŘÍHOVÁ and Markéta ŠAMALOVÁ. Na co se často ptáte. Jak používat čárku a další interpunkční znaménka. Praha: Klett nakladatelství, 2006, 135 pp. ISBN 80-86906-76-0. info
- ŠVANDOVÁ, Blažena and Milan JELÍNEK. Argumentace a umění komunikovat (Argumentation and the art of communication). první. Brno: PedF MU Brno, 1999, 330 pp. Monografie 74. ISBN 1-210-2186-1. info
- Teaching methods
- Two-hour lectures are held in the first half of the semester. Exercises are two hours long, once every 2 weeks. The learner receives individual feedback on their work.
- Assessment methods
- During the semester, students have to submit two chapters of their Bc. Thesis: the state-of-the-art and the introductory chapters.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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